GP charged with manslaughter after allegedly assisting at fatal homebirth
This story has been updated with a comment from the Coroners Court of Queensland. A GP ordered to stand trial for manslaughter in relation to…
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The region at tipping point after five GP practices close in a year
When a Cairns practice called Trinity GPs shut down last month, it marked the fifth local GP practice closure in just a year. The city…
Clinical independence under threat from ‘vertically integrated’ cannabis companies, doctors tell Mark Butler
Doctor and pharmacy groups have suggested banning medicinal cannabis companies from simultaneously owning clinics and dispensaries, saying doctors’ independence is at stake. AMA Queensland and…
Puberty blocker ban: What does the Queensland Govt expect to find in another evidence review?
The reaction to the Queensland Government’s ban on the initiation of both puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children and adolescents diagnosed with gender dysphoria…
Queensland bans public gender clinics initiating puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to under-18s
Public hospitals in Queensland have been banned from initiating puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to under-18s amid concerns about prescribing practices in one of the…
Queensland hints it could restart physician assistant recruitment
Doctors have warned health officials against hiring more physician assistants to work in public hospitals after a senior bureaucrat hinted it was on the agenda.…
State government reveals GP payroll tax exemption
The Queensland Government has introduced draft laws to make GPs’ ‘wages’ completely exempt from payroll tax. After a multi-year saga of state tax collectors trying…
Pharmacists have performed just 415 consults in Queensland’s prescribing trial, but what they are doing exactly remains a mystery
Following the heated controversy over Queensland’s pharmacy prescribing experiment, around 400 patients — potentially fewer — have consulted a pharmacist. A big question is what…
Queensland’s GP practices to be permanently exempt from payroll tax menace
It has been a pained battle over the past two years, but general practices in Queensland will become the first to be permanently exempt from…
Penis cheese, rawdogging and Taylor Swift faeces — what is Queensland Health on about now?
It has been called unhinged, groundbreaking and fabulous, but when a health department starts talking about rawdogging, penis cheese and Taylor Swift, at least the…
